Miami releases Keith Davis

In a surprise move, the Dolphins cut the former Cowboys safety and special teams captain on Wednesday.

Wasn’t it just yesterday that they signed him to a two-year, $3.5 million deal that included a $500,000 signing bonus?

Actually that deal was reached at the start of free agency. Still, it just seems odd that they would left him go so soon.

Davis left the Cowboys as an unrestricted free agent because he wanted to compete for a starting job. That won’t happen if he returns to Dallas, which could certainly use him to cover kicks.

The Miami Herald’s Armando Salguero called the move “strange and untimely” in his blog.

Wrote Salguero: “First: Davis has been starting on practically every special team the Dolphins play. He has, by all accounts, acquitted himself well on those special teams. So that causes questions. Secondly: The team is under the 75-man roster limit. It didn’t need to release anyone. So it raises eyebrows that Davis would get released when there was no roster mechanism that required the move. I am not sugesting the move is caused by outside circumstances but this smells funny.”